Person of interest in ‘targeted killing’ of security guard at local nightclub taken into custody

DAYTON — A person of interest in the death of a former officer working as a security guard has been taken into custody.

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News Center 7′s Mike Campbell was there as investigators walked the man, identified as 25-year-old Sha’King Jones, from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office to the Montgomery County Jail. Deputies and detectives confirmed the arrest.

Jones was taken into custody in connection to the shooting death of Darnell Pate last month.

As News Center 7 previously reported, Pate was shot and killed in his vehicle after he left work at Napoleon’s Palace off Germantown Pike. Montgomery County Sheriff Rob Streck previously called the shooting a “targeted killing.”

Detectives discovered a stolen car abandoned in the area and they believe it was driven by the person who killed Pate.

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Pate was more than a nightclub security guard. We learned he had also been a police officer for at least four departments, including the Union City Police Department.

Jones is booked into jail on drug charges, according to online jail records.

A murder charge is also known but it notes Jones has not been formally charged yet.

We will continue to follow this story.

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